Me: Most venerated Gentoo system, I am interested in installing the package "kdebase-kioslaves". I have dutifully given all you ask. I have spent 4 days alone in compilitory supplication for your most current update -- and 7 days upon your installation not three months ago. I have wresteled with rev-dep demons and broken packages. I humbly beseech thee: What must I do to install this package?
Portage: Thou hast asked, and I shall let it be known, that there are three obstacles that must be overcome -- for the package kdebase-kioslaves-3.5* blocketh thy goal, as do the packages kdebase-3.5* and kdialog-3.5*.
Me: Verily, I shall do my best to overcome. Pray tell, great and noble Portage: What versions of these packages are installed upon the system, so that I might wrest them from power and cast them into the fiery pits of software deprecation?

Portage: My son, nowhere on the system are they installed.
Me: But... you just said...

Everything is up to date on this system as of my last portage sync (three days ago -- I have been compiling ever since).
kdebase-3.5.7 is installed, yet the system is telling me that 3.5* is blocking... that makes no sense to me...
kioslaves is not installed on the system anywhere, yet it tells me that version 3.5* is blocking...
kdialog also is listed as blocking, but is not installed on the system.

but I believe this means that the kde-base/kdebase package is installed and it includes kioslaves so you can not emerge both packages. I believe the reason for this is instead of emerging kde-base/kdebase you could have only emerged some of the packages in /usr/portage/kde-base instead of kde-base/kdebase which emerges the whole thing.

So to make a long story short. You already have kioslaves installed._________________John

Verily art thou an apostle of the Old Testament of KDE, which is called "Monolithic KDE", and have been living in a cave for the last two years. The kdebase-kioslaves is a teaching of the New Testament of KDE, which is called "The KDE Split Ebuilds". Verily, attempting to follow the teachings of kdebase-kioslaves while remaining an an apostle of the Old Testament is a path to damnation. You must convert, my son, following the new gospel, named The KDE Split Ebuilds HOWTO.

But beware! In converting to the New Testament, the Old Testament shall become thy damnation and thou must renounce the teachings of Monolithic KDE.

- John

Last edited by John R. Graham on Thu Oct 11, 2007 2:41 pm; edited 2 times in total

(you'll need gentoolkit emerged for equery)
just use it with any kde monolithic package, and remember to add the postfix "-meta". _________________Every day a new distro comes to birth. Every day a distro "eats" another.
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